Industry

Shale Gas Estimates Perhaps Optimistic – An Interesting and Worrying Talk at ASPO

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Unfortunately I have had to miss the ASPO Meeting in Denver this week, and so cannot provide the daily reports that I have written in the past. But I notice that at least one of the talks has already caught a significant amount of press, and that is the one by Arthur Berman on the gas production from shale deposits such as the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus.

Climate & environment – Oct 15

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-Pulling CO2 from the Air: Promising Idea, Big Price Tag
-U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions
-Catch Me If You Can: Does the IEAā€™s Carbon Capture Plan Make Any Sense?
-Giants in Cattle Industry Agree to Help Fight Deforestation
-Organizing The Biggest Day Of Action The World Has Ever Seen

Address to the ASPO International Conference 2009 (Denver, Colorado)

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Iā€™m happy to have the opportunity to spend the next few minutes sharing some personal thoughts on the subjects that bring us together for this excellent eventā€”thoughts based on my experience, during the past few years, of trying to get the message of Peak Oil out to an ever-wider audience.

Half a trillion barrels more than we thought? (Or, “The Tupi Field, the Pre-salt, and the Very Distant Future”)

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At the end of the first day of the ASPO conference in Denver, we were treated to a fantastic presentation on the oil potential of the sub-salt basins on the margins of the South Atlantic Ocean given by Dr Marcio Mello who presented the evidence for a half trillion barrels of reserves in this new frontier province. So has a new Saudi Arabia been found?

Interview with Sadad al Husseini: Part 2ā€”ā€œA lot of Money = a Little Oilā€

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This interview with Dr. Sadad al Husseini was filmed and produced in London on September 21 by ASPO-USAā€™s Dave Bowden, with Steve Andrews along on his own time and dime to ask some questions. Sadad is a geologist by training and a reservoir engineerā€”production engineerā€”by actual work experience. He started with Saudi Aramco back in 1970 and retired in 2004. Most of his time was spent with exploration and production activities but also in project management. Since he left, Sadad has worked as a consultant.

An invitation from the Mobilization for Climate Justice coalition

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This post introduces the U.S.-based Mobilization for Climate Justice, as well as similar critiques and activism associated with this Climate Justice coalition. As I indicate, the organizers in and around that coalition also address a range of energy & carbon issues (including tar sands pollution, and biofuel land grabs) — along with interrelated and more apparent global warming concerns. Their approach to these ecological issues is based on prior environmental justice critiques and activism, as well as wider opposition towards corporations, and other international market structures.